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Majoring in chic at L.A.'s fashion schools
Los Angeles TimesIn a bustling part of downtown L.A., a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. They're students at the Fashion Institute of Design &...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Arts, Fashion Shows, Teaching and Learning, MaxMara
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Salad industry on hunt for solution to tainted greens
For millions of Americans, bagged salads are a miracle food, the perfect mix of health and convenience.
Time-pressed cooks can rip open a bag and pour the leaves right into the bowl, reassured by the "triple-washed" label that some wondrous process has...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Gaming, Lettuce, Medical Procedures and Tests, Diseases and Illnesses
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Raymond L. Johnson Sr. dies at 89; lawyer, civil rights activist
Raymond L. Johnson Sr., an attorney, civil rights activist and former Tuskegee Airman, died Dec. 31 in Los Angeles of complications of pneumonia and heart failure, said his wife, Evelyn. He was 89.
Johnson, who practiced law for nearly 50 years, was a...Tags: Pneumonia, Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. Supreme Court, Colleges and Universities, Church and State Relations
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Gordon Hirabayashi dies at 93; opposed internment of Japanese Americans
Gordon Hirabayashi, who was convicted for defying the evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast during World War II and, four decades later, not only cleared his name but helped prove that the government had falsified the reasons...Tags: Politics, Japan, Culture, U.S. Supreme Court, Culture
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PASSINGS: Theo Angelopoulos, Wesley Brown
Theo Angelopoulos
Award-winning Greek filmmaker
Theo Angelopoulos, 76, an award-winning Greek filmmaker known for his slow and dreamlike style as a director, was killed in a road accident Tuesday in Athens.
Police and hospital officials said...Tags: Politics, Bruno Ganz, Colleges and Universities, Government, University of Missouri
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Robert L. Carter dies at 94; NAACP attorney fought segregation
Robert L. Carter, who as an NAACP civil rights attorney was an architect of the legal strategy used in the cases that led to Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared school segregation unconstitutional, has...Tags: NAACP, Racism, University of South Carolina , U.S. Supreme Court, Justice and Rights
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Elizabeth Brumfiel dies at 66; feminist archaeologist
Elizabeth Brumfiel, a widely recognized scholar in the field of feminist archaeology who studied Aztec culture, examining not only the functional and economic significance of ancient relics but what scholars learned about changing gender roles and...Tags: Field Museum of Natural History, Archaeology, Museums, Cancer, Culture
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